Perhaps some perspective can be gained by seeing the world premiere screening of "Rhymes With Banana" at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Written, directed and produced by local film professionals, "Rhymes With Banana" is being shown at 11:30 a.m. today at Upstate Films in Woodstock and at 2:45 p.m. Sunday at the Rosendale Theater. (For festival ticket information, click here.)

The film is the work of writers Christina Mengert and Joe Muszynski, directors Muszynski and Peter Hutchings and producers Claude and Brice Dal Farro of BCDF Productions.

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Die-hard festival fans will remember Mengert and Muszynski wrote the script for the 2011 festival audience favorite "Peace, Love and Misunderstanding," which starred Jane Fonda and was filmed largely in Ulster County. BCDF produced that film.

For "Rhymes With Banana," Mengert and Muzcynski wrote a hilarious script that harks back to the Hollywood archives of the 1930s and 1940s.

"We started brainstorming in November 2010," Muszynski said in a shared phone interview with Hutchings.

"Z (Zosia Mamet) and G (Jee Jung-Han) -- we call them by their film names -- approached Claude with the bones of an idea for a sitcom series," Muszynski said. "He thought it would make a better feature film and called in Christina and me to write it."

The script they delivered presents Z and G, two wanna-be actresses who just can't break into the film biz. They escape into a whacky world they invent, including emergency preparation drills and people-watching on the stoop of their Brooklyn apartment, all the while wearing "slankets" (definition coming).

Then, Ted moves in next door. He's very cool and exudes connections to celebrities and famous people, leading Z and G to decide he's a talent scout. Out of luck and out of time, they decide to kidnap him, with their acting careers as ransom.

"'Slankets' are like blankets with sleeves," Muszynski explained. He said costume designer Ingrid Price outfitted Z and G with them so they could stay warm while keeping an eye on the neighborhood.

"We wrote them into the script," Muszynski said.

By industry standards, the film came together quite quickly, Hutchings said.

"A lot of serendipitous things happened," he said. "The conversation with Z and G happened in October (2010), we had a first draft by Thanksgiving, and we were shooting in March."

"Rhymes With Banana" is Hutchings' and Muszynski's directorial debut.

"We know each other and have worked together before," Hutchings said. "We had a unified vision of the film from start to finish," he said.

"We had strengths in common and had ideas going into the film," Hutchings said, "that we immediately threw out the window!"

"Even though there were two directors at the helm, everyone on set felt that unified vision," Muszynski said. "It was organized chaos, as only film can be."

Asked about the film's title, Muszynski laughed.

"Christina and I had various working titles as we worked on the script, but nothing fit perfectly," he said. "I kept throwing out title ideas and emailing them to everyone.